17 January 2007

The Snow Ma'am

The news that Eduardo is not going to AWP has prompted me to do a roll call. Will you be going to Atlanta? Please say yes. For those who have been there before, how warm will it be (i.e. flip flops or no flip flops)?

We now have a couple of inches of white stuff on the ground. I still haven't finished typing up all of my syllabi. There's something about spring semester and setbacks.

Today's the beginning of my new MFA poetry workshop, which is always exciting. Our program is consortial, so I get students from four different universities. That rocks. So many new folks, including Jessica Jewell, aka Penzilla, who has a stunning thesis manuscript about people living through the Dust Bowl. I wish I were that ambitious.

Please send wee Ray some healthy ear vibes. He has a wicked infection that is making him (and all the rest of us) really sad.

I have some poems up at Seven Corners. It's nice to be in such good (Chicagoland) company.

I've got to find some money to make it happen, but my guess right now is "Yes," I will be in Atlanta. Anyway, I built a cancellation into my class syllabus for Wednesday of AWP week and my students will be upset if I change that now.

About me.

I live in glorious Akron, Ohio, where I write poems, edit the Akron Series in Poetry, and teach literature and creative writing. I am the author of five full-length collections of poems, including A Sunny Place with Adequate Water, Small Enterprise, and the collaborative poetry collection The Czar, with Jay Robinson (all from Black Lawrence Press). I've received an NEA fellowship in poetry, and several individual excellence awards from the Ohio Arts Council. In 2019 my first collection of prose poems, Partial Genius, is due to drop from BLP.
In my spare time, I like to photograph garbage.